Hassan

Marwa Hassan is the Associate Dean for academic affairs and the Chair of the Engineering Science program in the College of Engineering at LSU. She is also the Founder and Director of the regional university transportation center Tran-SET, as well as the CETF Distinguished Professor, the Donald W. Clayton Distinguished Professor, the Jacobs Professor of Excellence, and the Worley Professor of Excellence in the College of Engineering at LSU. She was elected as a SEC Leadership Academy fellow in 2024 and a Cottrell Scholars Collaborative (CSC) Academic Leadership Fellow in 2026. She was awarded the Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Medal in 2003 and was elected ASCE Fellow in 2018.
 
Her area of expertise is the evaluation and characterization of sustainable infrastructure materials and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA). Dr. Hassan has more than 30 years of industrial and academic experience in construction materials innovation and characterization, life-cycle assessment, and resilient construction. She has mentored and advised 25 Master students and 14 Ph.D. students to completion.
 
Marwa holds a B.S. in Construction Engineering from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from the Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
 
She is married to Mostafa and they have two children.